[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] `libps` provides an API for accessing process information. An alternative is a [[Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem|translator/procfs]]. # IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2013-03-09 [[!tag open_issue_documentation]] what's the difference between PSTAT_STATE_P_STOP and PSTAT_STATE_T_HALT in libps/ps.h ? Steap: from reading the gnumach source, it seems halted threads are thread which have finished they work but not finished terminating yet while STOP is the standard preempted state i.e. not sleeping, but have handed cpu to another thread youpi: thanks. Is this "halted" state similar to anything in Linux ? TASK_DEAD, probably